• Posted on Saturday, December 5, 2009
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Some art to stay behind after Art Basel in Miami Beach

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Art Basel Miami Beach comes and goes each December, but this year, some of the art created to coincide with the giant trade show will hang around after the show ends this weekend.

In Miami Beach, an interactive sculpture has been installed at a new parking garage on Lincoln Road. And in Wynwood, acclaimed artists are painting huge murals on the exterior walls of galleries and other structures.

Saturday night, Wynwood will be awash with the Art Basel set -- curators, dealers, collectors, art party people -- streaming through galleries that have sprung up in the hardscrabble urban landscape dotted with slices of beauty. Along an exterior wall of the Dorsch Gallery, for instance, is a luminous Brandon Opalka mural, Nature is Imagination Itself, a depiction of a redwood tree.Read this story on Miamiherald.com

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